Blades of Khorne 2023 Battletome Preview

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In this video I’m going pay the blood tithe and summon your allegiance abilities and there has been some significant changes, enhancements, key warscroll changes and the points.

This battletome was provided to me by Games Workshop at no cost in advance of instore release. I’m under no obligation to do a review or will Games Workshop have any control of what’s in this video.

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00:00:00 – Introduction
00:00:34 – Allegiance Abilities
00:03:11 – Blood Tithe
00:06:57 – Command Traits
00:09:04 – Artefacts
00:11:00 – Prayer Lore
00:13:37 – Slaughterhosts Sub-Faction
00:15:00 – Grand Strategies, Battle Tactics & Battalion
00:18:08 – Skull Altar Terrain
00:18:30 – Skarbrand & Wrath Of Khorne Bloodthirster
00:21:17 – Bloodthirster Of Unfettered Fury & Bloodthirster Of Insensate Rage
00:23:18 – Skulltaker, Karanak & Flesh Hounds
00:26:09 – Bloodmaster Herald Of Khorne, Bloodletters & Blood Throne
00:29:18 – Skullmaster, Herald Of Khorne, Bloodcrushers & Skull Cannon
00:31:49 – Realmgore Ritualist
00:33:28 – Korghos Khul, Lord Of Khorne On Juggernaut & Skarr Bloodwrath
00:35:58 – Valkia The Bloody, Mighty Lord Of Khorne & Bloodsecrator
00:39:02 – Slaughterpriest, Skullgrinder & Aspiring Deathbringer
00:41:15 – Exalted Deathbringer, Bloodreavers & Wrathmongers
00:43:17 – Blood Warriors, Bloodstoker & Mighty Skullcrushers
00:45:29 – Skullreapers, Claws Of Karanak, Dromm & Gorechosen Of Dromm & Scyla Anfingrimm
00:46:34 – Khorgorath, Magore’s Fiends & Garrek’s Reavers
00:48:25 – Invocations
00:49:16 – Points
00:50:23 – Closing Thoughts
00:52:02 – Patronage Thank You

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Music: Banger by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
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40 thoughts on “Blades of Khorne 2023 Battletome Preview”

  1. Update: I made an incorrect comment about Skarbrand's total carnage. It does NOT get compared to the opponents save.. the text is "The attacks characteristic of Carnage cannot be modified. In addition, do not use the attack sequence for an attack made with Carnage. Instead, roll a dice. The target unit suffers 8 mortal wounds if the roll is equal or greater than the Carnage value shown on this unit's damage table. If the roll is 6, the target unit suffers 16 mortal wounds instead"

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  2. I actually liked the old book more for its shenanigans lol.
    Now its just flat better stats, but less cool bloodthirsty things to do. But the average khorne player is now able to understand how their army is played 😛

    There is a possibility to play similiar to the new 5:0 Slaves to Darkness Bridge List imho.

    If you know the Soulscreambridge list you could just use Skullreapers and crushers(4+ rally possible btw) as counterparts to Chosen and Knights. Priest acts like the bridge/daemonic speed shenanigan. (its not as far as the bridge obviously but 16+D6 movement and then a Charge).
    You Take The Flayed to especially give the Mighty Skullcrushers a 5+ Ward when they were picked to fight.
    You dont have the Varanguard like the Slaves to Darkness have – but An AxeThirster + a reinforced Unit of Cannon can get their Job kinda done for similar points.
    In order to make it happen you need to chant for the Hero Phase movement. Then use the 1 Bloodtithe that you already have because your general is a daemon with this command trait and hope for a good roll to move D6.
    Even if this strategy doesnt work cause you roll bad or the opponent is deployed in a way were your plan wouldnt go of you can still screen your units with Reavers and warriors and strike in the 2nd / 3rd round.
    (You could still use the Bloodthirster pile in Command trait if you dont want that unreliable D6 Movement shenanigan in your 1st battleround Or get the Priest General to also get your bleeding Icon out early.)

    And if you dont care to be One drop you can just get a 2nd priest and change the 190 pkt warrior slot. To also have the bronzed flesh and more (pretty good prayers) aviable.

    you are one drop
    The Flayed.
    Thirster 330 Strikefirst artefact if you like – so he can just stay somewhere quite open and still strike enemies forst – Or give him more survivability (as you prefer)
    Bloodmaster/slaughterpriest 110 – Generaltrait on Bloodmaster if you dont want your thirster to be General.
    Secrator 110 He gives 4+ rally anyway. You could use tunnelmaster to position near your skullcrushers if needed.

    10 Warriors 190
    10 Reavers 80
    10 Reavers 80

    6 Skullcrusher 400
    10 Skullreaper 380 (actually you could go just 6 more Skullcrushers lol)

    2 Cannons 280 (We have to see if it is still possible to reinforce)
    Bleeding Icon 40
    1960 (Charge triumph for your skullcrushers)

    gl hf

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  3. totally random thought of the day: if you took a msu army of reavers and had a bunch of skull cannons waiting to be summoned lol you could get some pretty decent damage output by the time the games over lol

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  11. Why did they raise the points for skullreapers? They didn't get 3 save or 2 damage. Wrathmongers are still way beter with their points unchanged and better utility.
    Also, cannot understand the loss of all the utility from small gorechosen heroes. They all had something useful on warscroll. Now they're bland and just holding 5 attacks with damage 2 with no interesting abilities at all.

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  22. I'm really excited to play this new book! I've been playing khorne since launch this feels the most on point they've ever been. I'm excited to let Skarbrand take a break! I think his wings got that way from carrying the whole range on his shoulders through this whole edition until now!

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  33. Thanks for the preview coach.
    Wow this book is just so boring and uninspired. It's a copy paste from the previous book which was a copy paste of the previous book. No new ideas, just cram more priests into a faction that didn't want or need magic. No new heroic actions? What a waste of an opportunity.

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  37. Almost no Rend, almost entirely damage 1, d3 damage bloodthirsters, no fighting twice… this is a combat army? For the last 6? Years or so Skarbrand, Boom-thirsters, slaughterpriests, cheap screen carried this faction and most of the damage was nerfed, but oddly these units are still the best… really weird book

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  40. I was hoping skullreapers would play more like chaos chosen. Blood warriors losing no respite is sad but the new ability to do damage on death will speed the game up. I’m excited to find out what will work on the tabletop!

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